crosser
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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crosser is aFrenchverb. It means: Pousser avec une crosse. Pronounced \kʁɔ.se\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crosser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crosser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɔ.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for crosser in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is crosser, spelled C-R-O-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pousser avec une crosse.
- 2Frapper quelqu’un à coups de crosse de fusil.
- 3Frapper ; molester.
- 4Traiter quelqu’un avec le plus grand mépris.
- 5Tromper, arnaquer.
- 6Se masturber. Peut être utilisé pour manifester du mépris à une personne.
- 7Sonner
- 8Médire, user ses crocs contre sa réputation (selon Delvau 1867 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k50521b/f145.image)
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